Posts Tagged ‘Salford’

Free Kate McCann Vigil, Free All Political Prisoners.
Kate has been involved in lock-ons and peaceful direct action at Barton Moss Community Protection Camp. Now, a judge has sent Kate to jail until 29th April for breaching bail – by going back to the Camp to help clean it up, after the iGas drilling rig[…]

Today the lorries arrived and so did the police. However the police remained in their vans at each end of Barton moss road . We blockaded the lorries peacefully and slowly walked in front of them up to the site. Not a single police officer came anywhere near. We got to the gates of igas[…]

Photo by Darren Nesbit
Update by Tim Williams, Barton Moss Protection Camp.
Today was a nasty police day but I felt such a power with the Protectors we stand on the high moral ground in love and peace. Continually the Assault Team tries to provoke, speed up and disrespect us but we carry on. These[…]

No Dash for Gas response to Patrick Sawer’s Telegraph piece
Patrick Sawer’s article in the Telegraph today (Sunday December 22nd) – “Fracking protests head north as activists mass on proposed Manchester shale gas exploration site” – is a classic attempt at framing activists who support community struggles, in this case against IGas and fracking, as[…]